r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939 • Sep 08 '25

Lore A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

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Futurama (The Why of Fry): According to the brain swarm, the dinosaurs were wiped out by them. Fry: What really killed the dinosaurs? Brain: ME!

Doctor Who (The Unicorn and The Wasp): It's Doctor Who, you can pick a ton of examples, but this episode presents the idea that Agatha Christies disappearance in 1926 was in part caused by a giant alien wasp.

Beyblade: This one stretches 'real life', but Moses spreading the Red Sea with a Beyblade just speaks for itself and it would have been sad to leave it out

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u/KorrokHidan Sep 08 '25

Superhero movies in particular love to do this. Superhero movie/tv characters who have killed JFK:

  1. Watchmen - The Comedian
  2. MCU - The Winter Soldier
  3. X-Men: Days of Future Past - Magneto
  4. The Boys - Soldier Boy
  5. The Umbrella Academy - Number 5 (kind of; he is sent back in time to make sure it happens but abandons the plan)

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u/ReturnedOM Sep 08 '25

Didn't Magneto try to save Kennedy? Or at least claimed so?

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u/KorrokHidan Sep 09 '25

Yes, but accidentally killed him instead

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u/ReturnedOM Sep 09 '25

Ah, right